TAKE ACTION: Let’s help stop Texas’ war on immigrants and refugees.

Tell Texas Governor Abbott: Stop your war on migrants and refugees at the border. Stop using Cobwebs Technologies' Israeli apartheid tech to harm families.

As salaamu alaykum, Indiana—

Texas' Governor, Greg Abbott, has launched what appears to be a full-on border war against migrants and refugees. These are our people: children and families who, like my parents and many others, came to the U.S. to find safety and a better life for themselves and their loved ones.

Instead of extending compassion for those fleeing war, climate disaster, political punishment, and more, the Texas governor has used the idea of an "invasion" of migrants to launch the multibillion-dollar "Operation Lone Star" to imprison and harm people on the border.¹

One tech company is aiding this war against migrants and refugees, and that's Cobwebs Technologies — a surveillance tech company co-founded by Israeli intelligence members.²

Tell Texas Governor Abbott: Stop your war on migrants and refugees at the border, and stop using Cobwebs Technologies' Israeli apartheid tech to track and cage families.

In July, Texas troopers under Abbott were "ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande" — and "told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat."³

This is the kind of inhumanity that Governor Abbott is pushing, and Cobwebs Technologies is supporting: Cobwebs Technologies's tech would let that same state government track people's movements without a court order, and mine data from our smartphones.

I gotta tell you, I know a little about what it's like to be targeted and surveilled so authoritarians and white supremacists can do their worst. Palestinians, under Israeli occupation, know worse. They are among the most surveilled people in the world.

If Cobwebs Technologies is being used on migrants and refugees in a so-called "invasion" on the border, it is, or most certainly will be, used to surveil U.S. Muslims, Arabs, and activists of all backgrounds.

Don't sleep on Cobwebs Technologies. Don't turn away from Abbott's war on migrants and refugees.

We also need to keep a steady eye on technology developed in Israel to track and surveil Palestinians. It's wrong in Palestine, and it's wrong here.

If you care about migrants and refugees, if you care about Palestinians living in a state of perpetually being watched, if you care about your own right to privacy and freedom of movement, then join us and sign our petition.

In solidarity,

Linda, Granate, Ishraq, and the team at MPower Change

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Sources:

1. "Texas State Police Purchased Israeli Phone-Tracking Software for 'Border Emergency'" Intercept, July 26, 2023. 
2. "Aimed at Protests, Surveillance Contractor's New Owners Expand Spy Tech Portfolio," Unicorn Riot, Aug. 20, 2023.
3. "Texas Trooper Blows Whistle on 'Inhumane' Orders for Border Migrants," Newsweek, Aug. 18, 2023. 

 

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